From sad, to happy, to generous, to all-out courage, Kushinadahime, the goddess of rice fields, has been the queen of 4-color dungeons from start to finish. This God-Healer-Attacker form truly serves to ensure that most other competitors (aside from Anubis, the king, and Robin, the prince) cannot truly outdo her in the four color dungeons.

The thing with the sword is that if you recall one of Susano's early evolutions, it's the same sword. I believe there is some mythology of Kushinadahime and Susano being a couple or something. That's why there's the sword.

If we are to assume it is actually a sword belonging to Susano no Mikoto, then it has to be Kusa-Nagi no Tsurugi, as his original sword (at the point that Kushinada-hime would be back in her humanoid form) had a notch in it from, presumably, striking the sword inside of the snake.

Since she's holding an intact sword, it has to be either Kusanagi or an unrelated sword the PAD artists gave her to make her look cool.

Yeah, not sure what the sword ting is all about. It isn't Kusanagi, which was in the snake's tail when Suasno saved her or it would at least make a little sense. If there is any story with Kushinadahime using a sword I don't know of it. If they gave her rainbow keeper's sword from eating him that would have at least been something...

The only thing about ultimate evolutions like this is that u know there is an Awoken version eventually coming so if u don't have 2 of these u know you'll pretty much be reversing her at some point, unless there is an off chance u can evolve her into her Awoken version from this one which usually isn't the case, but if ur like me it won't make a difference because u just have to have her.

If you only use Kushi as a sub when you need the damage shield I am not sure if this evolution is worth it or not. The extra cost and rarity mean s ranking and those new level up special dungeons get a bit harder. If you use her as a lead or as a full time sub the it is of course worth it. Still.. she only gets any love on my A.Bastet team to eat preemptives like Hera. That extra attack and skill boost is nice... this is a toss up.

Agreed, that would be sweet. The teams I'd usually run with her were often with row subs, shooting for rows for boss bursts. The damage output was usually pretty ridiculous. Definitely would be a fun type of lead. I can't imagine how they'd make her active better than it already is, unless they went with a reduced shield for 2 turns.

I'd love a 65% dmg reduction for 2 turns on a 5-turn CD. That would be amazing. Or a single turn on 5 turns with 1 turn haste. I'd get hype for that too.

1.2x is really weak, I mean Bastet got a 1.5 and she had a better LS to begin with, I was hoping for more with Kushi considering how buff Sakuya got. If her new awakenings included 2-prong attacks, that would have been pretty cool.

Kushinada is not meant to be an end-game lead. The main draw of this evo is the Attacker-type which allows her to fit in with all the other Wood Attackers. GZL especially loves it as he pretty much needs some kind of shield due to the terrible HP of his team and LS condition.

Also, even if we go with the evo mats argument, Sakuya requires 8 jewels while Kushi only requires 2. Obviously, Sakuya should be way better.

Lead and friend Kushi and the right subs,, of which l have many that l can swap in for different situations, and I've got a vesitile lead, who will take me pretty late in the game. If you can combo, have a number of SUBS in each iteration with time skills and tpa's, and can know when you can stall a turn and set up a cleared board for a skyfall reward, then you have an easy 9.3.

I say she will get another evo, and as I get later into the game I will acquire even more also better SUBS to add to the pool.

This is not an awoken evolution so her skill should not be changed.Even if her skill is changed, it can only be skilled up through piis. Plus with the recent updates to the orb-enhance awakenings, four full oe enhance orbs can increase the entire team's attack equivalent to a tpa. That is powerful enough imo.

I love Kushi, obviously, but even I think the awoken skills are a bit of a hodgepodge. A lead like this goddess will clearly be enlisting SUBS who cover things such as orb enhancements, heart enhance (ugh) and a single, measly HP recover. I concur with the author; I would happily trade those 4 skills for a single tpa.

Four down votes is an unwarranted fate. Up vote from this Kushi disciple.

What are those? Feet AND legs. Getting more and more rare in the PAD universe.

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